Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.The Courier can reveal that West Lothian Council’s annual wage bill is over £200 million pounds.We sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the council and discovered that the wage bill for the last year, from November 2019 to November 2020, was £223,048,471.It also showed that the annual council salaries had increased by over £5 million from the previous year, November 2018 to November 2019, when the wage bill was £217,618,123,This represents a wage hike of £5,430,348 in the past year.The FOI asked the council to reveal their 10 highest-paid employees.The Courier discovered that chief executive, Graham Hope, had an annual salary of.
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